Description: A playlist of the comedies I like and thought were funny too
Creator: Arcangel2020
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Galaxy Quest
( 1999 )
The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
( 1999 )
An average aquarium cleaner house-sits for a gigolo, only to be forced to become one himself.
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Dogma
( 1999 )
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
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Bowfinger
( 1999 )
When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
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American Pie
( 1999 )
Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
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Big Daddy
( 1999 )
A lazy law-school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
( 1999 )
Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".
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10 Things I Hate About You
( 1999 )
A pretty, popular teenager can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.
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Jawbreaker
( 1999 )
Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.
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Blast from the Past
( 1999 )
A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter.
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Very Bad Things
( 1998 )
A prostitute is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches.
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A Night at the Roxbury
( 1998 )
Two dim-witted brothers dream of owning their own dance club or at least getting into the coolest and most exclusive club in town, The Roxbury.
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There's Something About Mary
( 1998 )
A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.
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The Wedding Singer
( 1998 )
Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.
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Half Baked
( 1998 )
The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.
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For Richer or Poorer
( 1997 )
A real estate hustler and his wife hide from the IRS among the Amish.
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
( 1997 )
Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.
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Chasing Amy
( 1997 )
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
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Swingers
( 1997 )
A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends.
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Fools Rush In
( 1997 )
After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
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Beverly Hills Ninja
( 1997 )
A man tries to rescue a woman with a little help from his half brother.
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A Very Brady Sequel
( 1996 )
The Bradys receive a surprise visit when a man claiming to be Carol's long-lost first husband shows up at their residence, the family question his motives.
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Kingpin
( 1996 )
A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.
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The Birdcage
( 1996 )
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
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Happy Gilmore
( 1996 )
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.
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Black Sheep
( 1996 )
A gubernatorial candidate hires a wormy special assistant whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election.
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Mallrats
( 1995 )
Brodie Bruce, a Sega and comic book obsessed college student, and his best friend, TS Quint, are both dumped by their girlfriends on the same day, and to deal with their loss, they both go to the local mall. Along the way, they meet up with some friends, including Willam, a guy who stares at Magic Eye pictures, desprately trying to see the hidden image; Gwen, one of TS's ex-girlfriends; and Jay & Silent Bob, of Clerks fame. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others, and take care of their respective nemesises (TS's girlfriend's father, and a store clerk who hates the two for not having any shopping agenda).
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While You Were Sleeping
( 1995 )
A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient.
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Tommy Boy
( 1995 )
After his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business.
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The Brady Bunch Movie
( 1995 )
The original '70s T.V. family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
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Billy Madison
( 1995 )
In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.
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Clerks
( 1994 )
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
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Jimmy Hollywood
( 1994 )
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl friend Lorraine is getting fed up with the whole situation.
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Wayne's World 2
( 1993 )
The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend.
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Mrs. Doubtfire
( 1993 )
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.
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Addams Family Values
( 1993 )
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
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Coneheads
( 1993 )
Aliens with conical crania crash-land on Earth.
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Weekend at Bernie's II
( 1993 )
Larry and Richard use a voodoo-revived corpse to track down hidden money to clear their names.
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Groundhog Day
( 1993 )
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
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Leap of Faith
( 1992 )
Fake faith healer Jonas Nightingale is stranded in a small town where he finds he can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Captain Ron
( 1992 )
A Chicagoan inherits an old yacht. He, his wife, daughter and son fly to a Caribbean island and hire a dubious Captain Ron to sail them on an adventure to Miami.
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Death Becomes Her
( 1992 )
When a fading actress learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.
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My Cousin Vinny
( 1992 )
Bill Gambini and Stanley Rothenstein are two friends from New York University who just received scholarships to UCLA. They decide to drive through the South. Once they arrive in Alabama, they stop at a local convenience store to pick up a few snacks. But, no sooner than they leave the store, they are arrested. They had thought that they were arrested for shoplifting, but they were arrested for murder and robbery. Worse, they are facing execution for this crime. Bill and Stan do not have enough money for a lawyer, so the good news is that Bill has a lawyer in his family, his cousin, Vincent Laguardia Gambini. The bad news is that Vinny is an inexperienced lawyer who has not been at a trial. So, Vinny has to defend his clients and battle an uncompromising judge, some tough locals, and even his fiancée, Mona Lisa Vito, who just does not know when to shut up, to prove his clients' innocence. But he will soon realize that he is going to need help.
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Wayne's World
( 1992 )
Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
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The Addams Family
( 1991 )
Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.
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Doc Hollywood
( 1991 )
A young doctor on his way across the country to a job interview crashes his car in a small town and is sentenced to work for several days at the town hospital.
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Hudson Hawk
( 1991 )
A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
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L.A. Story
( 1991 )
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a wacky weatherman tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early 1990s Los Angeles.
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Kindergarten Cop
( 1990 )
A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars.
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Mr. Destiny
( 1990 )
Unhappy Larry Burrows sees what his life could've been like, had he made that winning home run as a teenager.
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Pretty Woman
( 1990 )
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.
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Turner & Hooch
( 1989 )
A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.
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Weekend at Bernie's
( 1989 )
Two losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, leading the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
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Ghostbusters II
( 1989 )
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
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Working Girl
( 1988 )
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
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Twins
( 1988 )
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.
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Big Top Pee-wee
( 1988 )
Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.
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Big
( 1988 )
After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
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Crocodile Dundee II
( 1988 )
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Beetlejuice
( 1988 )
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
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Switching Channels
( 1988 )
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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Overboard
( 1987 )
A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
( 1987 )
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
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Can't Buy Me Love
( 1987 )
An outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month.
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Summer School
( 1987 )
Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.
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Adventures in Babysitting
( 1987 )
Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her boyfriend, Mike Todwell, stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, she settles down with three kids for a night of TV...and boredom. But when her frantic friend, Brenda, calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair raising adventures. Chris and the kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become.
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Dragnet
( 1987 )
The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
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Roxanne
( 1987 )
The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
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Harry and the Hendersons
( 1987 )
The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.
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Raising Arizona
( 1987 )
Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.
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Tough Guys
( 1986 )
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
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Howard the Duck
( 1986 )
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop a hellish alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a cute struggling female rock singer who fancies him.
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Club Paradise
( 1986 )
Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small carribean island named St. Nicholas. There, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort, Ernest Reed. Greedy developers are schemeing to wrest Reed's coveted beach front property from him for non-payment of taxes. Jack comes to Ernest's rescue, and together they renovate and reopen the resort catering to affluent Americans. The film follows the zany exploits of the proprietors, guests and various colorful island denizans, as they break in the new "Club Paradise".
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Crocodile Dundee
( 1986 )
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
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Wise Guys
( 1986 )
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City, and comedy follows.
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The Money Pit
( 1986 )
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
( 1986 )
The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.
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Gung Ho
( 1986 )
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
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Wildcats
( 1986 )
A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
( 1986 )
A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
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My Chauffeur
( 1986 )
A free-spirited young woman (Deborah Foreman) upsets the status quo at a stuffy Brentwood limousine service.
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Spies Like Us
( 1985 )
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
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Johnny Dangerously
( 1984 )
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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All of Me
( 1984 )
A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
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Ghostbusters
( 1984 )
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
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Police Academy
( 1984 )
A group of good-hearted, but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
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This Is Spinal Tap
( 1984 )
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
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Trading Places
( 1983 )
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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The Man with Two Brains
( 1983 )
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
( 1982 )
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut.
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Stripes
( 1981 )
At the end of a very bad day when he realizes his life has gone and is going nowhere, John Winger is able to convince his best friend, Russell Ziskey, whose life is not much better, to enlist in the army, despite they not being obvious soldier material. In basic training, they are only two of a bunch of misfits that comprise their platoon. However, it is still John that is constantly butting heads with their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. Two of their saving graces are Stella and Louise, two MPs who get them out of one scrape after another. Their entire platoon is in jeopardy of not graduating. But what happens during basic leads to their entire platoon being assigned to an overseas mission in Italy, to test a new urban assault vehicle, the EM-50 project. John and Russell decide to take the EM-50 for an unauthorized test drive to visit Stella and Louise who have been reassigned to West Germany. In the process, the rest of the platoon, Hulka, and Hulka's immediate superior, self-absorbed Captain Stillman, get caught unofficially behind enemy Communist lines in Czechoslovakia. John and Russell, with Stella and Louise's help, will have to show their true mettle as US army soldiers and in the process test the capabilities of the EM-50 to rescue their platoon without the rest of the US army knowing what's going on, and thus without any assistance beyond themselves.
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Private Benjamin
( 1980 )
A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.
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Caddyshack
( 1980 )
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a flatulent new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
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The Blues Brothers
( 1980 )
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
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National Lampoon's Animal House
( 1978 )
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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Young Frankenstein
( 1974 )
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
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Paper Moon
( 1973 )
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
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fl4g0ndry : This was a fun ride! Loved it! Now I'm going to have to go back and re-watch all of them. ...